Project Management: Agile and Scrum Mastering

Contributing to my Project Management Google Certification, I developed mostly Scrum and Agile methodology experimental projects for startup tech companies.

My preferred - an Agile project:

/Planning the project/

I gathered the team, looked at our goals, visions and values together;

Created a backlog of the tasks to be done according to the needs and business requirements of our customer;

Broke down the tasks into user stories;

Estimated time and effort consumption for each user story;

Set project milestones;

Assigned roles to each team member according to their characteristics, skills and experience.

/Sprint Planning/

Reviewed the backlog, selecting the highest-priority user stories to define the sprint;

Broke down user stories into tasks, estimating time and effort required for each task;

Assigned tasks to team members based on, beyond their characteristics, their availability;

Established a sprint goal and plan, comprehending tasks and estimated effort, as well as their deliverables.

/Sprint Execution/

Held daily meetings where each team member would report their progress, impediments that came up as well as updates for the team;

Made use of a project management tool called Asana to track the status of tasks and user stories;

Closely collaborated and updated the customer, to ensure the needs and expectations for the project are being met;

The team continuously tested and validated the product through the user acceptance testing technique;

Gave frequent feedback and reflections back to the team in order to improve the team's processes in use and practices.

/Sprint review and retrospection/

Reviewed the completed user stories;

The team demonstrated the final, working product to the customer;

Collected feedback to integrate it in future sprints;

Held a retrospective meeting to reflect on the sprint and identify improvement methods for the team's processes and practices.

/Project closure/

Completed any remaining user stories;

Conducted a final review;

Obtained approval from the customer;

Delivered the final product with respective documentation;

Finally held a post-project meeting with the team to reflect on the wholeness of the project, identifying lessons learned and best practices for future projects.